The Dixie Cook-Book

“The best is none too good.” Southern family receipts gathered across generations and printed in Atlanta in 1883 — and, in the same volume, everything else a household was expected to know: the laundry, the sick-room, dressmaking, babies, and a year's bill of fare.

House-Cleaning

4 receipts in this part of The Dixie Cook-Book.

Protection Against Moths

During the week before the "siege" of house-cleaning in spring or fall, look over all garments and articles to be put away, mend, remove…

Kalsomining

If papering and painting, or kalsomining are to be done, do the last named first. Wash ceiling that has been smoked by the kerosene lamp…

Painting

If painting has been required, a patient endurance of a sufficient number of drying days must be given over to this process. The smell of…

Papering

In papering a hard-finished wall, a thin solution of white glue should be first applied with a white-wash brush. To make the paste, sift…

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